CVE-2019-18684 (GCVE-0-2019-18684)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-11-04 15:53 – Updated: 2024-08-05 02:02 Disputed
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Sudo through 1.8.29 allows local users to escalate to root if they have write access to file descriptor 3 of the sudo process. This occurs because of a race condition between determining a uid, and the setresuid and openat system calls. The attacker can write "ALL ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL" to /proc/#####/fd/3 at a time when Sudo is prompting for a password. NOTE: This has been disputed due to the way Linux /proc works. It has been argued that writing to /proc/#####/fd/3 would only be viable if you had permission to write to /etc/sudoers. Even with write permission to /proc/#####/fd/3, it would not help you write to /etc/sudoers
Severity
7.0 (High)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
1 reference
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://gist.github.com/oxagast/51171aa161074188a… | x_refsource_MISC |
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